Account of expenses for indentured servants and Negres slaves. From A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes , by Richard Ligon, gent. London 1673.

The language used to describe people of African descent in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.